Next Tuesday, Lemon Grove City Council will vote on a second reading of an ordinance which would require off-site liquor salespeople to get the same training as bar tenders and restaurant servers.
While it won’t amount to fewer establishments that sell alcohol, the city hopes it leads to a safer community.
Lemon Grove has what you might call a “high alcohol outlet density”. Current state guidelines allow for one liquor retailer or “off sale” business per 25-hundred people and one “on sale” establishment, a bar or restaurant per 2,000 people.
The study performed by the Institute for Public Strategies, a non-profit organization that works with cities to reduce health disparities, found Lemon Grove with a concentration 800% greater than state limits.
In part of an emailed response to NBC 7 questions:
“Several of the alcohol licenses held were grandfathered into the City. Historically this has been an issue that is …